Fleetwood: My Life and Adventures in Fleetwood Mac

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by David

For those of us who virtually memorized all the old Mac articles in Rolling Stone, Hit Parader, Circus, Cream, & Stereo Review, reading the book elicited a strange sense of deja vu.

At the time, I thought about compiling a source concordance, sort of for fun. My estimate at the time was that only about 35 percent was new from Mick's brain. Incidentally, the stuff that ruffled people's feathers -- Lindsey's, Stevie's, Christine's -- & that fans clamored was "untrue" was almost entirely the "new" stuff.

An additional layer of irony: Since the publication of Mick's book in 1990, there've been other books & articles that have lifted -- sometimes verbatim -- from THAT! Plus, fans who never read it or don't remember what they read have for years added florid "details" to the tales Mick tells. So what we have at this point is a misreading of a misreading of a misreading. It's so convoluted (for example, the New Zealand concert incident) by now that it would be like trying to peel off the layers of a 10-ton onion to get to the original story.

I recently bought a used copy and perused it. I thought Mick's statement of attending Stevie's wedding at some "born again church" was not only oddly inaccurate (even Carol Ann got that part right and she wasn't there!), but it was also poorly edited.